How psychedelic researchers' self-admitted substance use and their association with psychedelic culture affect people's perceptions of their scientific integrity and the quality of their research

Forstmann, Matthias; Sagioglou, Christina

doi:10.1177/0963662520981728

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Forstmann, M., & Sagioglou, C. (2021). How psychedelic researchers’ self-admitted substance use and their association with psychedelic culture affect people’s perceptions of their scientific integrity and the quality of their research. Public Understanding of Science, 30(3), 302–318. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662520981728

Abstract

Across three studies (total N = 952), we tested how self-admitted use of psychedelics and association with psychedelic culture affects the public's evaluation of researchers' scientific integrity and of the quality of their research. In Studies 1 and 2, we found that self-admitted substance use negatively affected people's assessment of a fictitious researcher's integrity (i.e. being unbiased, professional, and honest), but not of the quality of his research, or how much value and significance they ascribed to the findings. Study 3, h